JqGrid getRowdata gives cell value on a row as string - jqgrid

Question

I have an issue with jqGrid 4.6.0
When I try to get the row data it changes each data to a string I need to parse them to get the actual int or boolean values what is strange is that when I see the rowobject inside a custom formatter the rowdata seems correct
Here is the sample code and jsfiddle link for the sample I created
var myformatter = function (cellval, options, rowObject)
{
// rowObject is correct here {id: 1, Name: "test1", IsActive: true, Count: 10}
var active = rowObject.IsActive;// here active is true/false which is good
var count = rowObject.Count; // here count is 10,20,30 which is good
if(active )
{
// do what ever
}
return cellval;
}
var mydata = [
{id:1, Name: "test1", IsActive: true, Count: 10},
{id:2, Name: "test2", IsActive: false, Count: 20},
{id:3, Name: "test2", IsActive: false, Count: 30} ];
var grid = $("#list").jqGrid({
datatype: "local",
data: mydata,
height: "auto",
colNames: ['id', 'Name','Is Active','Count'],
colModel :[
{name:'id', index:'id', width:55},
{name:'Name', index:'Name', width:90},
{name:'IsActive', index:'IsActive', width:90, editable: true ,formatter:myformatter},
{name:'Count', index:'Count', width:90, editable: true}
],
pager: '#pager',
rowNum:10,
rowList:[10,20,30],
sortname: 'idcustomers',
sortorder: 'asc',
viewrecords: true,
gridview: true,
caption: 'Customers',
cellEdit: true,
cellsubmit: 'clientArray',
});
var row = $('#list').jqGrid('getRowData', 1);
// row is: {id: "1", Name: "test1", IsActive: "true", Count: "10"}
// What I was expecting {id: 1, Name: "test1", IsActive: true, Count: 10}

Answer 1

You should use getLocalRow method instead of getRowData to solve your problem. It's important to understand that getRowData get the text from <td> element. Thus the standard type of data is always string. The method getLocalRow just get the reference to internal element of data array with original data.
One more remark: it's recommended to define unformatter (unformat callback) formatter always if one defines custom formatter.
One can see that you use editing of data. The standard editing will change the type of data on modification. Thus you will have the same problem as before. Free jqGrid allows to fix the problem by specifying convertOnSave callback for the column. See the wiki article for more details. Additionally free jqGrid support some standard column templates, which simplifies the data conversion for Boolean, integer and numbers. On can add template: "integer" property in the Count column (see the template definition here) and to add template: "booleanCheckbox" (see here). You can debug the demo for example and verify that the types of properties of data will be hold correctly after editing.